"A Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible"
"Ukraine's counter-offensive "gradually bogged down in mud and blood and did not result in any strategic gain" and its planning, conceived by Kiev and Western general staffs, turned out to be "disastrous"
"Planners thought that once the first Russian defense lines were breached, the entire front would collapse [...] These fundamental preliminary phases were conducted without considering the moral forces of the enemy in defense: that is, the will of the Russian soldier to hold onto the terrain".
"The inadequacy of the training of Ukrainian soldiers and officers": due to a lack of officers and a significant number of veterans, these "Year II soldiers" from Ukraine - often trained for "no more than three weeks" - were repeatedly launched into an assault on Russian fortification lines that proved impregnable."
